TY - JOUR
AU - Hansen, Hans Krause
AB - Global Society, Vol. 16, No. 2, 2002 The Global Diffusion of Managerialism: Transnational Discourse Communities at Work SVEN BISLEV, DORTE SALSKOV-IVERSEN and HANS KRAUSE HANSEN New Public Management has developed into a world-wide movement. All local authorities have to adopt their own approaches when it comes to modernizing their public administration. Yet, in spite of structural and cultural differences they are confronted by very similar challenges. This article sets out to disentangle some of the organisational forms and links through which particular visions and meanings of (local) statecraft are being diffused. While ultimately concerned with the globalisation of governance, the ensuing account seizes on a very particular instantiation of this diffusion, namely the knowledge and networks provided by the myriad of transnational discourse communities (TDCs) operating with a claim to authority and expertise in the ® eld of governance. Alternative ways of conceptualising this phenomenon abound: global policy networks, policy communities, transnational advocacy networks, epistemic communities, discourse communities, communities of practice. Not really synonyms, these terms capture different aspects of the knowledge peddlers and their trade. We have chosen a term that enables us to ground our analysis in a social constructivist perspective, highlighting the correlation between know- ledge, 
TI - The Global Diffusion of Managerialism: Transnational Discourse Communities at Work
JF - Global Society
DO - 10.1080/09537320220132929
DA - 2002-04-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/taylor-francis/the-global-diffusion-of-managerialism-transnational-discourse-jepywuKA0c
SP - 199
EP - 212
VL - 16
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -